Photo Album

Assignment: Create a Photo Album about absolutely anything you like that contains all of the Requirements listed below.

Learning Goals: You will become more familiar with the guts of the Word program. You may find these specific features helpful when using Word in the future, but you will also become comfortable enough with advanced features to be able to use other such features even if they are new to you. You will be practicing using the Word control functions of Table of Contents and Header and Footer manipulation across separate document sections and control of your page numbers.

This assignment also ensures that you can do basic picture editing such as cropping and adding effects using a graphics editor. I show you how to use GIMP, a free graphics editor, but if you already use a graphics editor you like, feel free to use that instead.

How to Start:

• If you prefer to dive right in: Read the requirements below and look at the sample and then create an album that includes all the requirements. (If you get stuck on one part, just look look at the movie for that one part.)
• If you prefer a movie guiding you along: use the step by step movie instructions: photo album movie tutorial. These are only available for Windows Word versions after 2006. You will need to choose the one column that fits your computer and watch the movies in order. I recommend putting the movie in one window as you work along side it in another window. If you need to follow the video and need a windows computer, use the library computer lab.
  
• If you prefer written instructions telling you exactly what to do: use step by step written instructions: photo album instructions (If you use both movie and video and they do not match exactly, don't worry as both versions of the assignment are acceptable.)
• Note: If you finish and find your page numbers and headers and footers are wrong, be sure to look at the last row of the movie tutorials to find instructions on fixing it. photo album movie tutorial

Photo Album Requirements

• Word Document elements:
  • A cover page with no header and footer
  • A table of contents generated by Word with no header and footer on the table of contents page.
  • At least two pages of pictures with some headings you can put into the table of contents
  • page numbers, filename and date on the bottom of each page in footer
    • start page number for first real photo album page (not table of contents or cover) at 1
    • title of album in the header on the pages with pictures (not on the table of contents or cover)
  • one table with squiggly line borders and one with no borders
  • a picture centered on the page
  • a picture that is aligned with text so the text is on the left and the picture is on the right.
  • Some text with different font and size
• Graphic editor elements: (pictures that are modified by a graphics program - You can use any graphics editor though I show you how to use GIMP)
  • a picture that is large and a cropping of that same picture on the same page.
  • a picture with text written on the picture itself
  • a picture that is modified in some way by irfanview or google drawing or any other photo editor - show the before and after on the same page
• Here is a sample photo album.

Upload the assignment through moodle by clicking on the photo album assignment. (You will be limited to 100 MB files and 3 uploads. If you have problems, you can email the album to me at pepper@adelphi.edu.)

Optional Help:

• Here are some quick hints for Mac Word 2011
• Click on this extra help guide for extra tutorials